God Is Not One Analysis

This semester we have been focusing on Prothero and his beliefs in the book “God is Not One”. According to Prothero the term “tikkun olam” means to not believe in something but to do something to repair the world.The ultimate goal is to perform acts of kindness that could potentially perfect or repair the world. This causes the Jews to be more together by rituals and their ethics instead of by the doctrine. They put a lot of emphasis on the acts of social responsibility, they do not focus on the large realm of the more sacred acts. They focus on fixing the world that we live and not removing or undoing things that have already been done.The “tikkun olam” wants to make changes to what has already been done and make improvements to make us better
Jews insisted that God is beyond comprehension and description. The issues became such a big problem that they would not do certain things out of respect for the divine. This helps with the temptation to confuse your personal opinions with the Wisdom of God. These things work together in order for everyone to remain respectful even though there may be some differences within the religion your man focus is to respect the Wisdom of God no matter how you may feel personally which works well to lessen the tension between people in order for people to grow closer to God. The biggest problem is exile within the Jewish religion which is when you grow distant from God and his beliefs of where we should actually be. The solution to this issue is to become much closer to God and where we truly belong. In order to get people to move closer to God and moving forward with this journey involves two things. You are suppose to tell a story and follow the rules and laws also to remember and to be obedient (pg. 246). In the book earlier Prothero speaks about the Jewish story is about people being removed and then brought back home which is the story of exile and the return